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May 1997
Death of Reverend (Canon) E.A. Harris Many of you with roots in Lunenburg County will have used the notes of Canon Harris. Here is part of an article in the Bridgewater Bulletin dated November 1931 which may be of interest to you.
The news of the passing of Reverend E.A. Harris, rector of Mahone Bay and Honorary Canon of All Saints Cathedral, will be received with sorrow and regret by thousands of people in this Province and in Prince Edward Island where he was born 70 years ago. Death came at 8:30 o'clock Saturday evening without warning as he had been about as usual all day.
Canon Harris was the son of the late William Christlow Harris, who came to Prince Edward Island from Conway, North Wales, in 1849. He received his early education in Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown, and St. Peter's Boy School in the same city, matriculating therefrom to King's College, Windsor. Shortly after graduating he was ordained by the late Bishop Binney and in 1884 became assistant at Mahone Bay to Rev. Dr. Snyder, whom he succeeded at the latter's death as rector of the parish and where he served so faithfully and successfully all his ministerial days. Canon Harris was a power in the Anglican Church.
He was a scholarly and forceful preacher and a diligent worker in all matters pertaining to the welfare of his church. A governor of King's College, he was ever ready to do all in his power to advance its welfare. Not only was he deeply interested in the affairs of his church, but his activities extended to all propositions having the welfare of his fellow men as their aim.
Canon Harris married Miss Florence Zwicker, daughter of Alfred F. Zwicker, who for many years was Collector of Customs for the port of Mahone Bay. Besides his wife he is survived by two children, Ruth, wife of Rev. Layton Tuck, both of whom have been at the rectory at Mahone for the past few months, and Edward H. Harris, who resides in Massachusetts.
Queries Beware - addresses etc below may no longer be valid.
Mader: Wanted - any information, stories about, reminiscences or photographs of Elias Mader, Master Mariner of Mahone Bay and his wife J. Gertrude Strum or their son Amos (my great grandfather) and his family, or any of the children, Judith Gertrude, Frederick Elias, Rev. Joel, Louisa, Naoma, J. William, Captain Avard and Annie Cora. Frederick and William were lost at sea aboard the brigantine, Albert M. of Lunenburg on a return voyage to Halifax from the port of Mayaguerez, Puerto Rico, in April 1884. I am associated with the families Mader, Ernst, Strum, Penney and Hirtle. Send info to Scott Wallace, 1710 Sutton Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio 45230-1804. email bwallace @one.net.
Corkum: Wanted: To correspond with researchers and/or descendants of: William Corkum and wife Anna Margaret (nee Hughey) Corkum. Searching for their daughter, Elizabeth Margaret Corkum, b. Nov. 1808, married George Lewis Naugler.
Silver/Emeneau: Wanted: To correspond with researchers and/or descendants of: Andreas Silver, born Nov. 1809, and wife Anne (nee Emeneeau) Silver. She was born to George and --- Emeneau ca 1821. Also searching for their son James Isaac Silver born March 1840 - ZL Lun. Married in Liverpool, NS in 1864 to Sarah Jane McLaughlin. A daughter, Annie Laurie Silver, was born in Liverpool in 1866. Seems to have removed from Liverpool soon after - perhaps returned to Lunenburg County. Replies to the above queries can be sent to Elizabeth Richardson, 42 Shore Road, RR1, Liverpool NS B0T 1K0.
Historical Notes on Queens County Continued from March issue
About 1822 arrived arrived Elisha Freeman, son of Peleg Freeman of Milton, and his wife Hannah Deane. He married Marie Coville, daughter of Timothy Coville, of Barrington, and made his farm in Pleasant River, there the last house he built is yet in fair conidtion. Mr. Freeman died in middle life, leaving a large family, and two of them are yet living.
Peleg Freeman, brother of Elisha Freeman, married Rebecca, daughter of Levi Minard and his wife Rebecca Kempton, of Milton, daughter of Richard, the ancestors of all the numerous persons of that name in Queens County. Mr. Freeman settled in Kempt, where he continued till death. A few descendants survive.
Deane Freeman, a brother to Elisha, married a daughter of Timothy Coville, and made a beginning in Pleasant River, but moved to Kempt, where he cleared a farm and reared a family, and went the way of all of the earth, leaving sons and daughters to continue his posterity, a matter not at all neglected.
The Freemans were even then a host in themselves; they got a fine start. The first white child born in the County was Simon Freeman, and among the original settlers of Liverpool was Elisha Freeman and his six marriageable sons, and besides outside of them were two other remotely connected families. Small wonder it is that they overflowed into the northern District in numbers above all other names, but they were ever a sober industrious stock, and good material for the work in hand; and the next on the list is Simeon, a brother of the last three named. He married Mahetable MacLearn, of Port Mouton. Mr. Freeman kept in touch with his brothers, and began his farm near their lines, and made him a home where he did not live to old age. A family survived him but all of them were much scattered up and down in the earth.
Another brother was Bartlett, who married Nancy McLearn, and settled in the same locality. Some members of his family are yet alive.
And yet there was another of the sons of Peleg to try the country life in the person of Zoeth Freeman, who married Charlotte Parker, daughter of Major Nathaniel Parker of Nictaux, who was the father of sixteen children, who grew to adult life, married and had families. Zoeth settled in Harmony, where he died in the prime of his life leaving a large family that yielded three College bred Baptist ministers, two of them still living.
We are by no means done with this stock, and the next is David Freeman, son of Nelson, son of Simeon, son of Elisha, and that takes us back to New England. I had intended to say that David was the son of Mary Whitman, wife of Nelson, and daughter of John Whitman, and Mary Foster, who were well known pioneers of Annapolis County.
In the Autobiography of John Stuart Mill there is no mention of his mother, who was a very worthy woman, but the whole story if saturated with minute notices of his father. For my own part I never had much admiration or use for John Stuart's brains after I discoverred that he had no heart. Men are very ready to magnify their importance at the expensse of the wives and mothers who have done by far the larger part of all the wholesome tasks and duties that have raised mankind out of the ditch of savagery. I know very well that this remark does not quite belong here, but nevertheless, it explains why I have so persistently kept in view the mothers of the Northern District, whose names were learned at my mother's knee in childhood, and learned so well that this paper was prepared two weeks ago with but slight assistance of memoranda or persons. It may seem like small business to store men's memory with the commonplaces of existence, but after all, "out of the heart are the issues of life," and the humble objects and lowly occupations of everyday people are our best instructor. "The hen gathering her chickens under her wing, the leaves hidden in a measure of meal, the salt that had lost its savor, the candle under a bushel, the fowls of the air, the lilies of the field, the grain of mustard seed, the bruised reed, the smoking flax, two sparrows for a penny, the patches on old garments, two women grinding, the sower, the sheep that went astray, the burdens on men's shoulders, the children asleep in the house, the late comer at his work, the children piping in the market place, the tares among the wheat, the sheep fallen into the pit, the woman searching for a penny," these are a sample of the illustrations by the greatest of Teachers who have learned them first hand from the common people who heard him gladly.
After this digression we will get back again to our point of departure, to David Freeman, who married Doziah, daughter of William Mack, of Mills Village, and Mary Burbank, his wife. They settled in Pleasant River, made a fine farm, reared a useful family, lived till the "grasshopper became a burden," and there were more and better reasons for going than staying.
Perkins, a brother of David, settled in Kempt, somewhat later. He married Lucinda Hayes, of Milton, and his children are living thereabouts.
George Freeman, son of Dennis and Mercy Goreham his wife, and grandson of Barnabas Freeman, a town proprietor, made room for himself and family in the village of Harmony. He married Mary Kempton, of Milton. They passed away in old age, and some of their children, now past the fourscore mark, are still hale and hearty among us.
This tale of the early settlers of North Queens will continue in later issues of the S.S.G.S. News.